I've been feeling crappy today. It's a long story involving a really bad reaction to inhaled dust. Regardless, it means that I spent my precious day off watching a lot of Hulu.
Hulu has a new (well, not that new...) option of watching a one or two minute commercial before a show rather than a few shorter commercials throughout. It's usually a pretty good bet, but some of the commercials - often billed as "short films" - wind up kinda confusing.
To me. the reigning champ is the ad for depression drug Cymbalta. The first twenty-five seconds is your normal "doesn't depression suck?" diatribe. The next minute or so consists entirely of side effects and warnings, ranging from worsened depression to "liver problems, potentially fatal."
They say corporate America doesn't care about the consumer, and here's a company willing to spend so much money to tell us how dangerous their product can be.
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Ah, but if you have REALLY bad depression that nothing else helps, wouldn't nearly fatal liver problems be better than the depression?
ReplyDeleteI'm still waiting for the day that they include "death" as one of the possible side-effects; the "liver problems, potentially fatal" is the closest I've seen.